Archive for the 'humor' Category
- a true story of blog addiction
Being away or rather forced to be away, from the net for long gave me chance to muse about the blogosphere and the hold it has on us bloggers. Is Cloud Nine when you get a comment to your blog, the Indianhomemaker a passionate blogger herself, had once wondered. [...]
March 11th, 2010 | Posted in humor | 25 Comments
When it rains it pours and how!
My woes started with the modem going kaput. What can be as disastrous as that for a blog addict?? I did not go into shock immediately that happened because my buddy Airtel gprs connection on my cell phone was there as standby while the BSNL people got their act [...]
March 8th, 2010 | Posted in humor, memoirs | 22 Comments
It was all done in the spirit of good fun. I had just returned form an early morning inspection of the grounds. The fresh air full of all the ozone thingy that humans speak of had put a spring in my step. Sadly enough there were no moony love-sick Labradors around to do that. Sighhhh. [...]
January 16th, 2010 | Posted in humor | 26 Comments
All ye sisters of mine (and you brothers, stay well out of this one!! Grrr….) lend me your ears or rather this being a blog and all that your eyes please. I recently came across a ‘prescription’ and a mind-bogglingly easy one to swallow …errrr, follow, for that ‘very liberating’ feeling we the sisters have [...]
January 8th, 2010 | Posted in humor, rant | 19 Comments
A cool night. The Bikaner Express from Kochuveli, speeding along assigned tracks to its destination, is nearing Mangalore. Most all are asleep. Hmmm… maybe not all. Inside A1 coach, on seat number 4, a conversation is afoot
Nokia N-70: Pssssst…
She: (sleepily) Yeah what is it??
Nokia N-70: (whispers with due consideration for the time) It’s them.
She: [...]
December 15th, 2009 | Posted in humor | 15 Comments
I have a few strands of gray hair, masquerading as coppery red due to the henna I apply, adorning my head. Of course like conscientious children the world over, the sons senior and junior have done their overzealous bit and contributed unstintingly towards turning a few among the glossy black strands to gray, especially during [...]
December 5th, 2009 | Posted in humor, memoirs | 21 Comments
This is fatso of ’The fatso and I‘ fame, rather notoriety, who looks a little less of the fatso in this picture than he had been a month back on account of moi being away from home for exactly the same period of time. But not to worry, he is quickly making up for lost time. [...]
October 5th, 2009 | Posted in humor, memoirs | 9 Comments
I get mine at the Army CSD and sometimes at Spencer’s or even at the Margin free store or the local kirana. Where do you get yours?? I am of course talking of that indispensable item of daily use, a toothbrush. You would be getting yours from somewhere similar, I am sure, since they don’t [...]
September 26th, 2009 | Posted in humor | 27 Comments
One of the first things I do as of a morning is to take a quick dekko at the spam comments on my blog page. I can very well imagine a few of you going tap-tap-tap with index finger on head sounding like a bally woodpecker out in search of daily nourishment, indicating by that [...]
August 7th, 2009 | Posted in humor | 16 Comments
This is not what you think it is. Moi certainly doesn’t have an identity crisis. Oh no siree, not at all. But someone or someones (Pardon the expression, I know there is no such word, but just couldn’t help the usage) else seems/seem to have a ‘crisis’ of gargantuan proportion about my ‘identity’! Now if [...]
July 21st, 2009 | Posted in humor, rant | 12 Comments